BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/27 00:50
Subsystems: audit
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+5ebeb3089ea6439c37be@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d07h, last: 3d11h
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e69b0017 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message 2026/08/24 01:02 2026/08/24 01:02 2026/08/24 02:01 1e72964b
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[PATCH] ima: Check for ERR_PTR from dentry_path() in validate_hash_algo() 1 (1) 2026/08/27 17:43
[syzbot] [audit?] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message 5 (7) 2026/08/27 01:42

Sample crash report:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffdc
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD eb97067 P4D eb97067 PUD eb99067 PMD 0 
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5818 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x30/0xa0 lib/string.c:402
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 55 48 89 fa 48 89 fd 53 48 c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 08 0f b6 04 02 48 89 fa 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 04 84 c0 75 50 <80> 7d 00 00 74 3d 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 e8 48 83 c0
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003d77940 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffffffffdc RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff8207fb91 RDI: ffffffffffffffdc
RBP: ffffffffffffffdc R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000000000b7
R10: 00000000000006c0 R11: ffffffff8bc921d3 R12: ffff8880785a84c0
R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 00000000fffffff3 R15: ffffffffffffffdc
FS:  000055555ec16500(0000) GS:ffff888123b86000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffdc CR3: 0000000075fb6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:218 [inline]
 audit_log_untrustedstring+0x19/0x30 kernel/audit.c:2203
 integrity_audit_message+0x366/0x4f0 security/integrity/integrity_audit.c:60
 integrity_audit_msg+0x41/0x60 security/integrity/integrity_audit.c:32
 validate_hash_algo security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c:752 [inline]
 ima_inode_setxattr+0x512/0x5f0 security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c:775
 security_inode_setxattr+0x2d0/0x560 security/security.c:1940
 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0xad/0x2b0 fs/xattr.c:309
 vfs_setxattr+0x14a/0x390 fs/xattr.c:344
 do_setxattr+0x145/0x180 fs/xattr.c:662
 file_setxattr fs/xattr.c:672 [inline]
 file_setxattr+0x139/0x1b0 fs/xattr.c:666
 path_setxattrat+0x335/0x3b0 fs/xattr.c:732
 __do_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:782 [inline]
 __se_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:779 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fsetxattr+0xc5/0x140 fs/xattr.c:779
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f506239e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fff3373f938 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000be
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5062625fa0 RCX: 00007f506239e0d9
RDX: 0000200000000380 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f5062435024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5062625fac R14: 00007f5062625fa0 R15: 00007f5062625fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: ffffffffffffffdc
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x30/0xa0 lib/string.c:402
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 55 48 89 fa 48 89 fd 53 48 c1 ea 03 48 83 ec 08 0f b6 04 02 48 89 fa 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 04 84 c0 75 50 <80> 7d 00 00 74 3d 48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 e8 48 83 c0
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003d77940 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffffffffdc RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff8207fb91 RDI: ffffffffffffffdc
RBP: ffffffffffffffdc R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000000000b7
R10: 00000000000006c0 R11: ffffffff8bc921d3 R12: ffff8880785a84c0
R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 00000000fffffff3 R15: ffffffffffffffdc
FS:  000055555ec16500(0000) GS:ffff888123b86000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffdc CR3: 0000000075fb6000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   4:	00 fc                	add    %bh,%ah
   6:	ff                   	lcall  (bad)
   7:	df 55 48             	fists  0x48(%rbp)
   a:	89 fa                	mov    %edi,%edx
   c:	48 89 fd             	mov    %rdi,%rbp
   f:	53                   	push   %rbx
  10:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
  14:	48 83 ec 08          	sub    $0x8,%rsp
  18:	0f b6 04 02          	movzbl (%rdx,%rax,1),%eax
  1c:	48 89 fa             	mov    %rdi,%rdx
  1f:	83 e2 07             	and    $0x7,%edx
  22:	38 d0                	cmp    %dl,%al
  24:	7f 04                	jg     0x2a
  26:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  28:	75 50                	jne    0x7a
* 2a:	80 7d 00 00          	cmpb   $0x0,0x0(%rbp) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	74 3d                	je     0x6d
  30:	48 bb 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rbx
  37:	fc ff df
  3a:	48 89 e8             	mov    %rbp,%rax
  3d:	48                   	rex.W
  3e:	83                   	.byte 0x83
  3f:	c0                   	.byte 0xc0

Crashes (15):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/23 10:15 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/24 20:18 upstream 818bebeb63dd b55bd4c3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/24 12:41 upstream 818bebeb63dd b55bd4c3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 21:52 upstream 818bebeb63dd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 09:36 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 08:09 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 06:37 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 05:10 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 03:42 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 02:14 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 09:18 upstream 66fb95a52111 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/24 19:49 upstream 818bebeb63dd b55bd4c3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/24 12:16 upstream 818bebeb63dd b55bd4c3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 21:20 upstream 818bebeb63dd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
2026/08/23 00:44 https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux master 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-arm32 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in integrity_audit_message
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.